“Mama knows that,” Kennedy reminded her.


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    Still, this was quite an interesting and distracting conversation. Dara continued to exin how creatures


    developed and grew sometimes wandering into portals and being deposited in different realms. Some


    creatures on this world still resembled their Earth ancestors. Women here actually vaguely


    remembered the giant asteroid that hit Earth and nearly destroyed it. Something about that urrence


    had closed many portals, but not all. Things still came and went freely for many eons after that.


    “Dinosaurs, Mama,” Kennedy said happily, “still exist in a form here.” Eve interjected and told me some


    women even surmised that the portals had shifted the living cells around that originally had seeded


    both Earth and Pateria. There was no proof of that, but it was a theory the scientists sometimes yed


    with. It was hard to tell because the portals had allowed creatures toe and go so freely between


    the worlds for so Long.


    I wasn’t crying anymore and just sat looking at my girls. They had done quite a wonderful job


    distracting me. I had not even noticed as my men came and sat on the bed around me. Christof sat


    next to me and looked at our daughter on the pad.


    “You were deceitful, Daddy,” Kennedy said harshly. “You should have told Mama what you were


    allowing to happen. Family does not act that way.”


    He agreed with her. It had been wrong and they were ashamed. They thought it would be better to just


    let it happen. There would be Less stress this way. I had been so upset when they bred mest time.


    My men worried about the sadness affecting me again.


    “No more secrets, Dad, promise me,” Kennedy demanded. “Family does not keep secrets. Mama can


    deal with the truth. What you did is not protecting her; it only hurts her more. She put her trust in you all


    and look what you have done.”


    I nodded sadly and looked at my daughter. Doing this only proved that the men still thought of me as


    less than them. They thought my life had to be arranged and protected. I Looked sadly at Christof.


    A N G E L A ‘s L I B R A R Y


    “I am not family when you do this to me,” I said looking around at the men.


    “I am only part of you when you allow me to be. You all have kept me apart in this and that is not


    helping me.”


    Kein sat in a chair across from me and looked at his Brothers before looking at me.


    “You were so upset when Nu-reeh forced us to breed youst time,” he said softly. “We didn’t want you


    to break again. The children make you happy. We hoped when you had the child inside of you, you


    would be happy again.”


    I shook my head as I looked at him.


    “The sadness is normal,” Kennedy intoned from the pad in my hands.


    “Mama will feel it until we free you all. Make her stronger by giving her freedom. The way you men


    have been trained is wrong. Mama needs your support and she needs to know what is going on.”


    My men looked quietly at one another. I wished they understood, but I was fairly certain they did not.


    Our rtionship was still so new, nothing like it existed here, there were bound to be mistakes and


    misunderstandings. My men just could not figure out how to treat me and stick to it.


    “Besides, it is much too soon,” Eve said carefully and the sound filled the quiet room.


    “Humans need time to recover between births. Nu-reeh should know this. It is probably part of the


    reason she wanted to wait. It will cause weakness and illness if Mama is bred too frequently.“


    Damien was horrified at that. No one had told him that. Eve exined the energy and minerals it took


    to make a new living creature was intense. My body would Literally digest itself to provide for the baby.


    It could make my teeth break and my blood thin. I needed rest between these breedings.


    The pad shed and indicated Hannah was trying to get through. Kennedy sent her love and support,


    but knew I had better get to Hannah. My oldest girl wasn’t patient and based on what I’d sent, she was


    probably pissed.


    Closing my connection to Kennedy opened one to Hannah’s fuming visage. Hannah cursed Damien


    until she ran out of words. She used such foulnguage I wanted to scold her, but I knew she wouldn’t


    hear it. My first child was livid that Damien had kept this from me and done this without my knowledge.


    It was bad enough Nu-reeh used me like a ve. She would destroy Damien for doing it, too.


    “Stop!” I demanded. “Damien and his Brothers are learning. They admit they made a mistake and did


    something wrong-“